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Where to eat at and around The Zetter Marylebone

You are on the Portman Estate, the quiet Georgian grid between Oxford Street and Edgware Road, and the hotel's own building has exactly one place to eat: the Parlour, a drawing room that does breakfast, small plates and afternoon tea until half past ten. The compensation is the street. Seymour Street and Seymour Place, one block west, hold two of the most serious kitchens in this part of London and a run of neighbourhood places behind them, and Edgware Road, six minutes away, is where London eats Lebanese at three in the morning.

The Parlour

The tables at this hotel that are a reason to come, and how hard they are to get.

The Zetter Marylebone: The cocktail lounge
Ground-floor Georgian drawing room doing breakfast, small plates, afternoon tea and cocktails

This is the hotel's only public room and the reason the place works. It opened in 2015 as Seymour's Parlour, with a cocktail list by Tony Conigliaro and food by Bruno Loubet, and it still draws Londoners who are not staying upstairs, which is the honest test of a hotel bar. It runs from 07:30 to 22:30, 08:00 on Sunday, so the same dark room does your coffee, your small plates and your last drink. Afternoon tea is from £55 a head, noon to four daily. The food is short and British: a Zetter sausage roll at £16, a cheeseburger at £23, Cobble Lane charcuterie and a British cheese board. Since the group rebrand the drinks list has been pitched as classics rather than the laboratory cocktails it launched with, and no consultant is credited now. Prices are the thing guests grumble about, and the room is small, so book a table rather than turning up on a Friday.

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On our shortlists

Within ten minutes on foot

  • KOL

    3 min walk

    Tasting-menu Mexican with British produce · ££££

    Mexican cooking built from British ingredients, three minutes along your own street: mole, corn masa and ceviche reworked around what the islands grow. Its own site gives a 145 pound seven-course menu and opens Tuesday from 17:30, Wednesday to Saturday from noon, kitchen last orders 21:15, closed Sunday and Monday. The adjoining Mezcaleria bar does agave drinks with antojitos if you want the idea without the whole evening.

    Book well ahead: tables go weeks out9 Seymour Street, W1H 7BA

  • Pub with rooms, all day · ££

    The corner pub at the end of your street, with a bar on the ground floor and dining rooms above, serving a seasonal British and European menu from breakfast through supper. Its own site gives 07:30 to 23:30 Monday to Saturday and 07:30 to 22:30 on Sunday, with the kitchen open until 22:00 on weekdays and 20:30 on Sunday. That makes it the answer when the Parlour is full, and the nearest cooked breakfast to the hotel door that is not the Parlour.

    Walk in6 New Quebec Street, W1H 7RQ

  • AngloThai

    5 min walk

    Thai kitchen on British ingredients, starred · ££££

    Thai technique cooked from British produce, which its own site describes as a Michelin-starred Thai restaurant, and the reason food people now walk to this corner of Marylebone. It opens Tuesday from 17:30, Wednesday to Saturday from noon until midnight, and is closed Sunday and Monday. Tasting menu format; book well ahead, because the room is small and this is the table the neighbourhood is currently known for.

    Book well ahead: tables go weeks out22-24 Seymour Place, W1H 7NL

  • Florencio

    5 min walk

    Neighbourhood pizzeria, cashless, Tuesday to Saturday · ££

    The pizzeria its own site calls your local, on Seymour Place, 48-hour fermented dough and seasonal toppings, with what its own site calls old-school service. The site says to book ahead, walk in, or call for takeaway, and gives Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 22:00, closed Sunday and Monday. Cashless, like the Parlour. This is the cheap, easy dinner five minutes from the hotel when you cannot face a tasting menu.

    Walk in14 Seymour Place, W1H 7NF

  • Lurra

    5 min walk

    Basque charcoal grill since 2015 · £££

    A Basque wood and charcoal grill that has been on Seymour Place since 2015: aged Galician rib-eye at 145 pounds a kilo on its May 2026 card, whole wild Cornish turbot at 98 a kilo, octopus, and the burnt Basque cheesecake it is known for. Its own site gives Monday 17:30 to 22:30, Tuesday to Saturday noon to 15:00 and 17:30 to 22:30, and Sunday lunch only, 12:30 to 15:30. Book for the steak and check the kilo prices against the size of the cut before you order.

    Reserve ahead9 Seymour Place, W1H 5BA

  • Ranoush Juice

    6 min walk

    Lebanese shawarma counter, open until 3am · £

    The Maroush group's shawarma counter on Edgware Road, six minutes west: chicken or lamb shawarma in a wrap, fresh juices, and a fuller Lebanese menu at the tables behind. The group's own page gives 9am to 3am every day and says it takes walk-ins only, no reservations. It is the late plate this part of town relies on when the Parlour has closed at half past ten, and the cheapest good food within reach of the hotel.

    Walk in43 Edgware Road, W2 2JE

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Breakfast

Breakfast is not included on any of the from-rates on the hotel's room pages. It is served in the Parlour from 07:30, 08:00 on Sunday, from the February 2026 card: a help-yourself grab and go of pastries, bread, fruit and juices at 8 pounds, eggs on sourdough at 7, the full English at 24, or the grab and go with a cooked plate at 28, all plus a discretionary 12.5 per cent and every coffee or tea at 6 pounds. The alternative is the Grazing Goat, three minutes away, whose kitchen also opens at 07:30.

What to skip

The cafés and chain restaurants along Oxford Street and around Marble Arch, a minute from the door, which charge West End prices for food that has not noticed where it is. Everything above is in the other direction, west into the Seymour Place grid, and the walk is shorter than the queue.

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Questions people ask

Good questions about The Zetter Marylebone

Where can I eat near The Zetter Marylebone?

You are on the Portman Estate, the quiet Georgian grid between Oxford Street and Edgware Road, and the hotel's own building has exactly one place to eat: the Parlour, a drawing room that does breakfast, small plates and afternoon tea until half past ten. The compensation is the street. Seymour Street and Seymour Place, one block west, hold two of the most serious kitchens in this part of London and a run of neighbourhood places behind them, and Edgware Road, six minutes away, is where London eats Lebanese at three in the morning. KOL, 3 min walk. The Grazing Goat, 3 min walk. AngloThai, 5 min walk.

Where should I eat at The Zetter Marylebone?

The Parlour. This is the hotel's only public room and the reason the place works. It opened in 2015 as Seymour's Parlour, with a cocktail list by Tony Conigliaro and food by Bruno Loubet, and it still draws Londoners who are not staying upstairs, which is the honest test of a hotel bar. It runs from 07:30 to 22:30, 08:00 on Sunday, so the same dark room does your coffee, your small plates and your last drink. Afternoon tea is from £55 a head, noon to four daily. The food is short and British: a Zetter sausage roll at £16, a cheeseburger at £23, Cobble Lane charcuterie and a British cheese board. Since the group rebrand the drinks list has been pitched as classics rather than the laboratory cocktails it launched with, and no consultant is credited now. Prices are the thing guests grumble about, and the room is small, so book a table rather than turning up on a Friday.

Our verdict

Book the Deluxe King, treat the Parlour as your sitting room and plan dinner somewhere else. If you want facilities in the building, this is 24 rooms and a bar and nothing more.

Last checked: September 2026

From about

£300 a night

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